Ernest Rutherford

Hills Like White Elephants: Analysis In this short video, a man and a woman are portrayed at a train station, waiting for their train to arrive. While they wait, they converse with each other and have a few drinks. During their conversation, there were several clues that I noticed with nonverbal and verbal communication. Each of them communicated very differently, but neither of them were very effective in the ways that they communicated or approached topics. I will break up the story into…

Ritualism is apparent in Hemingway’s short story “Big Two-Hearted River” with regards to Nick’s interactions with the river and nature. Through my Christian background, I recognize that this ritualism also is evidently involved with the sacrament of baptism and the Eucharist. As we discussed in class, Nick is injured due to a battle and is now attempting to recovering from that wound. However, William Bysshe Stein argues that Nick is also “afflicted by a graver injury, an acute disunity of…

In the story “Soldier's Home” by Ernest Hemingway’s is a story about a man named Harold Krebs who went to war in 1917 from a Methodist college in Kansas. He returns from the war in 1919. The title of this story A Soldiers home is a great description of the story the reason being its symbolize the meaning of the story it describes how retired soldiers from the military live in the same town and tells there war experience In "A Soldier's Home", the main character is Krebs. He is a soldier that…

In the short story “Soldier’s Home”, Hemingway develops the idea that impactful life experiences can change people’s point of view and that can change their perspective on themselves and the world, but that may not necessarily change the way others see people or their world. When these perspectives collide, it may result in conflicts, resentment or misunderstandings. In the opening paragraph of the story, Krebs talks about his participation in World War I. He has experienced five of some of the…

Hooked on Fishing Some people never get to experience the thrill of fishing or they just don’t like it. I am lucky enough to have an uncle with the same interests as me. I thought that getting up early on the Sunday before the last week of school would be horrible. I was at my grandma’s house and was getting up to go fishing on my uncle’s boat. I had gone fishin previously, but only in small ponds with small fish. We drove all the way to Lewiston on a windy day and put the boat in the water.…

Mi Ultimo Adios is the last poem written by Rizal before his persecution by the firing squad on December 30, 1896. The poem was an unsigned, untitled, and undated poem of 14 five-line stanzas. Rizal placed this poem in the cocinilla, the alcohol stove and it was delivered to his family after his persecution. Mariano Ponce, one of Rizal’s friend entitled the poem “Mi Ultimo Pensamiento” which means “My Last Thought” and Fr. Mariano Dacanay, a prisoner in Bilibid published it in La Independencia…

William Faulkner American novelist born in 1897 had great works even today. Many of Faulkner’s books have been published over the years. The main stories many people point you to are the sound and the fury and as I lay dying. Throughout the stories many tell about the narrator’s point of view. The novels will explain the life in the south by also using the stream of consciousness and with the monologue and narrative that he uses in the novels. First, Faulkner shows many important perspectives.…

“Hills Like White Elephants” Analysis “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway follows an American couple. The American man and his girlfriend Jig are on vacation. They sit waiting at a train station in Spain next to the Ebro valley. The couple drink together and talk about the hills which “look like white elephants” (Hemingway). As the conversation goes on the American man brings up an operation which Jig was to undergo. The couple then argues whether or not Jig should get the…

In the short story “Hills like White Elephants,” the author Ernest Hemingway creates a very complex relationship between an American man and woman. The majority of the passage involves the two having a deep conversation about an abortion that seems rather confusing at first to the reader. The couple bickers back and forth with each other about a certain “operation” that the woman is supposed to be having. At the end of the story, the author has one last paragraph that describes the man…

Ernest Hemingway As a high school student who composed for Oak Park high school newspaper in Illinois, Ernest Hemingway had to search day in and day out for stories that would interest his readers. Over time Hemingway begins to progress in his literature skills and serviced with the Oak Park high school student yearbook (“Timeline”2). Little did his readers and fellow peers knew that this boy, Ernest Hemingway, would change the way that readers looked at the 20th century literature, and…